I guess I planted some long lonesome seed of a song   Way down inside me long ago   And now I can't remember when it was   But it joined up with the rest of them and grows      It's such a little song it don't compare   With all your big ones you hear everywhere   But when it dawns way in the back of your mind   The big ones are made up of the little kind      Union song, union battled   All added up, won us all what we got now   Union song, union battled   All added up, won us all what we got now      I can't even start to look around me here   Without hearing this song   And seeing all of us first separated   Hurt apart and afraid      Hungry for the union   And so we kept on   Singing and working, fighting till we got it   And this is the big union song I guess I hear      Union song, union battled   All added up, won us all what we got now   Union song, union battled   All added up, won us all what we got now      We fought there at your place   We fought there on your ship   And I guess if you missed out on   The fight for our union      You missed out on one awful big step   Us people took      Union song, union battled   All added up, won us all what we got now   Union song, union battled   All added up, won us all what we got now      Union song, union battled   All added up, won us all what we got now   Union song, union battled   All added up, won us all what we got now